Barrel-support.



E. REED.

BARREL SUPPORT. APPLiCATION FILED MAR. 11, 1911.

a Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

ILFS-LLH WITNESSES j ATTORNEY glitch ED REED, 0F BASIN, WYOMING.

BARREL-SUPPORT.

To all whomz't may concern.-

Be it known that I, En REED, a citizen of the United States, residing at Basin, in the county of Bighorn and State of Wyoming,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Barrel-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

he present invention relates to improvements in the construction of stands for barrels, and has for its object to produce a device of this character which is of an eX- tremely cheap, simple but strong and effective construction whereby thesame may be easily and quickly secured to barrels of difierent sizes to provide a support for the said barrels, and whereby the barrel may be readily tilted to permit or the delivery or fluid therefrom or raised to a standing position when not thus used, so that the leaking of the contents through th barrel for the faucet will be thus efiectively prevented and also whereby the said barrel may be efiectively handled.

With the aboveand other objects in view the improvement resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and falling within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Figure l is an elevation illustrating the improvement applied to a barrel, the said barrel being in its upright position.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the device supporting a barrel in its horizontal position, the dotted lines indicating the various angles at which the barrel may be tilted, and

Fig. 3 is a provement.

In the drawing, the numeral 1 designates any ordinary construction of barrels and 2 the stand which is attached to the barrel.

The stand or barrel support 2 is preferably constructed of metal and comprises two connected shoe members, each including parallel straight portions 3 which at their ends are formed with angular extensions 4, the said extensions crossing each other and being approximately centrally connected, as at 5. The extensions 4 project outwardly with respect to the straight portions 3 of the shoes, and a transverse connecting memher 6 connects the said members 4 beyond the connecting element 5. lhe members at are formed with outwardly extending straight portions 'Z, parallel to the portions perspective view of the im- Spccification of Letters Patent.

e opening in the Patented Dec, 1?, 1918..

Application filed March 17, 1917. Serial No. 155,516.

3, and the ends of the said members 7 are formed with inturned hooks 8, the latter adapted to engage with the chines at the opposite ends of the barrel 9. The brace member 6 is disposed a suitable distance beyond the hooks 7 of the shoe members providing the support or stand, so that the rounded body of the barrel will not be contacted by the said member 6. Connecting the members 3 at the juncture of the angular end portions 4 are transverse brace members 10, while the brace members 6 are each provided with squared openings receiving the squared ends of beaded rod the ends of the said rods being threaded and being engaged by a turnbuckle 11. As the device is constructed of metal it will be apparent that by adjusting the turnbuckle 11 the hooks 8 may be brought to engage with various sizes of barrels and as illustrated in t e drawing, the corners of the shoes at the juncture of the members 3 and a provide fulcrum elements whereby the barrel may be readily tilted and sustained in horizontal position when the members 3 of the device rest upon a door or other support, and also that the barrel may be tilted to a desired angle as illustrated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawing.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the simplicity of the device, as well as the advantages thereof will, it is thought, be perfectly apparent to those skilled in thezart to which such invention appertains without further detailed description.

Having thus described the invention, what claim is: I

1. A barrel stand including a supporting frame having its ends bent to provide inwardly extending hooks designed to engage with the chines at the opposite ends of the barrel, and means for simultaneously adjusting both of the ends of the frame to bring the hooks toward or away from each other.

2. A barrel stand comprising a metallic frame including straight portions having angular ends the extremity of the said ends being formed with hooks designed to engage with the chines at the opposite ends of-a barrel, and longitudinally adjustable means between the said inclined ends de-. signed to influence said ends to simultaneously bring the hooks formed thereon toward or away from each other.

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8. A barrel stand comprising a frame constructed of metal including spaced straight members having angular extensions at the ends thereof which cross each other on. which are connected at their noints of crossing, brace me bers between the said aneuler ends and the said straight nortions, the said ends having straight extensions pars e to the strairrht portions of the device and the last mentioned straight portions being bent upon themselves to rovide hooks which are edanted to engage With the chines at the opposite ends of a barrel, threaded rod members connected with the ends, and a turnbuckle connecting the rods whereby to spect to the barrel edanted to be engaged thereby.

4. A barrel stand colnorising a frame ini cluding a rigid base and yieidabie ends, said ends being: bent to provide inwardly eitending hooks, and adjustable means between the ends for influencing said ends to simultaneously spring the hooks away from each other.

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